15Five vs. PerformYard: Which tool fits your performance management approach?

Looking for more than reviews or check-ins?

15Five and PerformYard both support performance management. However, they take different approaches. 15Five centres on regular manager-employee conversations while PerformYard focuses on formal review cycles.

If your challenge is understanding:

• How people feel today

• Acting early

• Making engagement work across complex organisations

You may need a different model altogether.

Before you commit to a performance management system, let's look at how 15Five and PerformYard compare, and whether there's a better fit for organisations that want continuous listening and real follow-through.

Why listen to us?

We've supported organisations as they simultaneously strengthen their engagement and performance. We have seen how real progress occurs when people's insights are timely, shared, and easy to act on.

At Xella Group, Eletive helped connect engagement data to operational decisions across a distributed manufacturing workforce. Gina Tricot uses the platform to link store-level engagement insights with business performance, giving retail managers the data they need to act locally.

The Eletive way of working, where everyone is included and has access to their own results, aligns perfectly with our commitment to transparency. It has increased engagement and overall enthusiasm about the surveys.

Those experiences shaped the Eletive effect. When organisations move from delayed snapshots to continuous listening, conversations improve. Managers gain clarity. Teams feel heard. Performance follows.

15Five vs. PerformYard: Key differences

15Five is built around weekly check-ins, while PerformYard is built around configurable review cycles

15Five is built with weekly check-ins as the starting point. It lets managers and employees share updates, feedback, and reflection throughout the year. Performance reviews then bring those conversations together.

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PerformYard, on the other hand, starts with performance reviews. Organisations decide when reviews occur, how they run, and who participates. Feedback and goals support those review cycles rather than setting the pace.

15Five includes a dedicated way to assess manager effectiveness, while PerformYard reviews managers through goals and evaluations

15Five includes a manager effectiveness indicator. It evaluates engagement results, upward feedback, and how managers meet with their teams. This allows organisations to see where managers may need support.

PerformYard assesses and evaluates managers through performance reviews and goal outcomes. Feedback is collected and recorded during reviews, rather than combined into a single effectiveness view.

15Five includes recognition and coaching tools, while PerformYard focuses on running performance reviews well

15Five includes recognition features such as High Fives, which make positive feedback visible across teams. It also offers optional coaching and training to help managers grow over time.

Recognition and coaching are not central to PerformYard. The platform focuses on helping teams complete reviews, set goals, and record feedback clearly and consistently.

15Five uses clear, tiered pricing, while PerformYard uses modular pricing

15Five has clear pricing tiers. Each tier bundles a defined set of features, making it easy to understand what is included at each level.

This model is suitable if you want predictable costs and a direct way to choose between engagement-only, performance-focused, or all-in packages.

PerformYard takes a modular pricing approach. Pricing varies based on selected components and requirements. You can start with a core performance management package and add modules such as meetings, surveys, or AI as needed.

What is 15Five?

15Five is a performance management platform built to support:

• Continuous feedback

• Employee engagement

• Manager development

It allows organisations to move away from one-off annual reviews and toward regular conversations about performance and growth.

The platform supports weekly check-ins where employees share updates and managers provide feedback and support. Performance reviews, goals, recognition tools, and engagement surveys sit alongside these check-ins. This gives teams a continuous view of how work is going.

15Five is commonly used by mid-market and large organisations that want to strengthen:

• Engagement

• Retention

• Manager effectiveness

Key features

• Weekly check-ins for ongoing feedback and reflection

• Performance reviews, including 360-degree feedback

• Engagement surveys, including pulse surveys and eNPS

• Manager effectiveness indicators

• Collaborative 1:1 agendas and meeting notes

• Recognition features such as High Fives

• Goal and OKR tracking

• Talent calibration tools, including a custom 9-box grid

• Optional coaching, training, and AI-assisted summaries

Pricing

15Five offers multiple pricing tiers to support different needs, from engagement-focused plans to a full performance management setup. Pricing is charged per user, per month, billed annually, with features bundled by plan.

Here's what each plan offers:

Pros and cons

Pros

• Strong focus on continuous feedback and engagement

• Useful tools for manager development and 1:1 conversations

• Built-in recognition features

• Clear, published pricing tiers

Cons

• Less suited to very large enterprises with complex, multi-country requirements

• Limited support for highly localised, multi-language environments

What is PerformYard?

PerformYard is an AI-powered performance management platform that helps organisations design and run performance reviews. It gives teams the flexibility to define how reviews, goals, and feedback should work across the organisation.

PerformYard centres on configurable review cycles. Teams can choose to:

• Set timelines

• Select review formats

• Involve collaborators

• Monitor progress from start to finish

Feedback and goals support these reviews, ensuring performance discussions are recorded and consistent.

The platform is ideal for organisations that value structure and flexibility, especially where performance processes vary by team, role, or department.

Key features

• Configurable performance reviews, including 360-degree feedback

• Goal setting and goal tracking

• Continuous feedback and private notes

• Review progress tracking and reminders

• Reporting and analytics across reviews and goals

• Employee engagement surveys

• Meeting notes and shared agendas

Pricing

Pricing is charged per user, billed annually, with the total cost determined by the selected features.

This suits teams that want control over what they pay for, though detailed cost breakdowns are provided after consultation.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Flexible setup that adapts to different performance approaches

• Strong support for structured review cycles

• Clear visibility into review progress and participation

• Works well across varied teams and departments

Cons

• Modular pricing makes cost harder to estimate early

• Less emphasis on recognition and manager coaching

• Performance conversations often centre around review periods

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Best alternative to 15Five & PerformYard: Eletive

Eletive is an employee engagement and performance management platform with real-time insights and manager enablement tools. It is built around continuous listening.

Organisations use it to understand how people feel in real time and act on that insight. The insights are then shared across teams, locations, and roles, so managers and leaders can respond while change is still possible.

Eletive is ideal for organisations with complex structures, frontline or deskless teams, and multi-country operations that need clear, timely insight at scale.

Key features

Science-backed pulse surveys

Eletive includes ready-to-use pulse surveys built on science-backed questions. You can start measuring engagement immediately without designing surveys from scratch.

When you need deeper insight, you can add custom questions to focus on specific teams, topics, or moments. This keeps engagement tracking consistent while still giving you the flexibility to focus on what matters most.

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Built-in manager support

Eletive gives managers clear support for everyday people conversations. Managers can prepare and run check-ins and 1:1s with shared agendas that both sides can contribute to. Notes from these meetings are easy to record and revisit, which makes conversations feel purposeful and consistent.

Managers can also write private notes to keep a personal record of observations and follow-up items. This helps them monitor progress and plan next steps without juggling separate tools.

Screenshot of Eletive's 1-on-1 meeting dashboard

Segmented people analytics

Eletive makes it easy to explore engagement and performance data in detail. You can segment reports by team, location, role, or manager to identify emerging trends.

Real-time reports update instantly as new feedback comes in. You can follow patterns over time without waiting for manual compilation or exporting data.

Eletive also includes tools like eNPS correlation analysis, so you can see how engagement connects with other outcomes.

AI-powered sentiment analysis

Eletive helps you make sense of open-ended feedback at scale. Instead of reading every comment one by one, sentiment analysis highlights positive and negative patterns in what people write. Theme detection groups similar ideas together, so you can see the main topics that matter most to your teams.

Integrated performance and goals

Eletive brings performance conversations and engagement closer together. The platform supports 360-degree feedback, letting employees receive input from peers, managers, and others across the organisation. This gives a fuller picture of performance and development.

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You can also set and track objectives and key results (OKRs) alongside engagement data. Goals are linked to how people feel and perform, so you can see progress in the same place you see team sentiment.

Structured action planning

Eletive helps you close the feedback loop, so insights lead to real progress. After surveys or check-ins, teams can turn results into structured action plans at the individual, team, or organisational level. Each plan includes clear steps, owners, and timelines.

Managers and HR can track the progress of actions over time.

40+ language support

Eletive is available in over 40 languages. This makes it easy for employees to participate in surveys and provide feedback in their preferred language, supporting inclusion across global teams and diverse workforces.

Seamless HRIS integration

Eletive integrates with your existing HR systems, payroll tools, and communication platforms to keep employee data in sync. This reduces manual updates and ensures engagement and performance insights sit alongside other data you already use.

These platform integrations make it easier to manage users, import organisational structures, and align engagement work with HR processes.

Pricing

Eletive offers three custom pricing plans: Essential, Standard, and Professional.

Here's what you get from each plan:

Pros and cons

Pros

• Real-time engagement insight

• Ready-to-use surveys with science-backed questions

• Strong support for complex organisations and segmenting data

• 360-degree feedback linked to engagement and goals

• Managers get clear, practical guidance for conversations

• Accessible for frontline and deskless employees

• Support for 40+ languages

Cons

• Not suitable for small companies under 100 employees

15Five vs. PerformYard vs. Eletive: Feature comparison

Why do people choose Eletive?

Feedback leads to visible, documented action

The gap between 15Five and PerformYard on one side and Eletive on the other is follow-through. Eletive's multi-level action plans ensure that survey results produce commitments with owners, deadlines, and tracked progress. Employees see that their input leads somewhere, which is what sustains engagement over time.

Continuous listening replaces periodic snapshots

Whether your current approach is weekly check-ins or annual reviews, Eletive supports a flexible cadence that matches your organisation's rhythm. Insight updates in real time, so issues surface early and action is timely.

Engagement becomes a shared responsibility

Eletive's self-leadership model gives every employee access to their own data and personalised recommendations. Managers and teams own engagement day-to-day, with HR enabling rather than administering.

The whole workforce participates

Kiosk mode, 40+ languages, and mobile access mean Eletive captures data from every part of the organisation. The insight you act on represents your full workforce, not just the people with laptops.

Choose the platform that supports action, not just feedback

15Five and PerformYard are suitable options for managing feedback and performance processes. But if your organisation needs real-time insight, inclusive participation, and clear follow-through at scale, Eletive is the better choice.

It helps you:

• Listen continuously

• Support managers where work happens

• Turn feedback into visible progress across the organisation

Contact us today to learn how Eletive can support your organisation.